Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives

The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children&a...

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Main Authors: Cristina Flores, Daniel Weingärtner, Esther Rinke, Jacopo Torregrossa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2022-10-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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Online Access:https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/article/id/8043/